Chapter Summaries

Servis Gerard emerged from the prison and fought Suren, who unleashed his restraints and transformed into a scarlet-eyed powerhouse. Their battle escalated into a clash of speed, alchemy, and puppets as the two families fled and Kai and the others entered the prison’s second floor.

• Servis Gerard appeared behind the two Oliver Family branches and revealed that he and Suren had anticipated each other’s arrival.
• When the commander questioned him, Gerard attacked, cut through the commander’s armor, and slaughtered the people who blocked his path before confronting Suren.
• Gerard absorbed blood and vitality from the corpses, entered his Red-Faced Clown state, and waited as Suren released his emotional restraints and charged him with enhanced strength and speed.
• Gerard survived Suren’s opening blow and activated Hormone Rampage, gaining enough speed to outpace Suren and interfere with his bodily control through precise attacks.
• Suren countered with Puppet Theater, but Gerard evaded the threads and dismantled the attacking dolls as their battle continued.
• The two families fled the fight, while Kai and the other two entered the prison’s second floor.

Suren and Gerard fought to the limit inside the Cursed Space, and Gerard revealed his powerful Black Clown state. Their battle ended when Madam Cereia intervened, while Suren gained Gerard’s memories, knowledge, and techniques before losing consciousness.

• Suren and Gerard paused their fight and recognized that Suren intended to use the space’s laws to kill Gerard within the four minutes their overloaded bodies could endure.
• Gerard revealed that he had stitched exotic creature flesh onto his back and activated his Black Clown state, greatly increasing his speed and strength.
• Gerard wounded Suren and blasted him out of the Puppet Theater, but Suren intensified his own power and charged back into the fight.
• Suren and Gerard exchanged devastating blows, leaving Suren with a chest wound and Gerard with his right arm severed.
• Madam Cereia forcibly stopped Suren as his body reached its limit, and Suren acquired Gerard’s memories, biological knowledge, and several abilities before his consciousness faded.

Suren recovered in Madam Cereia’s workshop and told her he had come from a thousand years in the future, then opened the sealed box that would end the Cursed Space. After she explained the box’s runes and the secrets behind his talents, Cereia asked him to become her disciple, and Suren accepted.

• Madam Cereia restored Suren’s collapsed body with a potion and confirmed that his brain region development had increased by about five percent.
• Suren told Cereia that Central Prison had become a Cursed Space and that he had arrived from a thousand years in the future; she accepted that she was dead and asked why he had come.
• Suren gave Cereia a golden card and the rune-sealed box, and she explained that its seals used Rune of Lunn, an advanced alchemical system.
• Cereia opened the box and revealed a still-beating heart, identifying it as the heart of a Fallen Angel and explaining that the All-Seeing Eye could perceive the universe’s Primordial Matter.
• Cereia explained that Suren’s S-Rank talents represented the Law of Death and the Law of Wisdom, then asked to take him as her disciple.
• Suren bowed to Cereia and called her Teacher.

Seraya gave Suren a glimpse of God-tier power and began refining Isaac's Alchemy Heart for him, while explaining its origins and a secret hidden across five manuscripts. Suren told her he had met Pestoya and relayed her question, and Seraya recognized it as, "Why I burned her to death."

• Seraya opened the seal on the Fallen Angel's Heart, showing Suren the pressure of a God-tier being and teaching him to broaden his knowledge and perspective.
• Seraya used Vulcan's Furnace Lamp and a powerful Alchemy Array to seal the heart with the lamp and begin refining Isaac's Alchemy Heart for Suren.
• Seraya explained that Isaac had defeated an Abyssal deity and used its still-living heart to develop an Epic-level set of Alchemical Implants.
• Seraya told Suren that collecting all five Alchemy Manuscripts would reveal a secret connected to the Emerald Tablet and the ultimate of Alchemy.
• Suren told Seraya that he had met Pestoya in a ghost-like state and that she wanted to know why Seraya had burned her to death.
• Seraya recognized Pestoya's question and began to cry.

Suren learned how Isaac and Seraya had preserved Pestoya’s soul after the Fallen Angel possessed her, and how their thousand-year plan was meant to eventually separate the two souls. Seraya gave Suren her alchemical research and guidance before revealing that she would disappear once the heart was refined and Cursed Space ran out of energy.

• Seraya explained that Isaac and the other alchemists dismantled and sealed the defeated Fallen Angel’s body, then studied its divine tissues and forty-strand genetic chain.
• Seraya revealed that the Fallen Angel’s soul escaped during the research and possessed Pestoya, forcing her parents to burn her to prevent a catastrophe while preserving her soul with measures in Storm Manor.
• Seraya confirmed that Mr. Mirror had survived to protect Dawn City’s legacy and address the god’s soul within Pestoya, and said Isaac had likely gone to the Abyss to pursue god-tier power.
• Seraya allowed Suren to take the books from the shelves and gave him her Puppet Alchemy Manuscript and Alchemical Golem Notes, including her design for Gargoyle.
• Seraya taught Suren to seek understanding of all things and Equivalent Exchange rather than merely collecting formulas and puppets, and Suren recognized this as the direction of his future studies.

Suren learned from Seraya how Alchemical Implants could grow through understanding, then received her blessing and the sealed Isaac's Alchemical Heart before she vanished. After reuniting with Kai, Rena, and Anthony in the ruins, he sent them away and warned that a major change was coming.

• Seraya taught Suren that Implants grew stronger as their owners understood the biological limbs and fused them with cursed properties.
• As the Cursed Space collapsed, Seraya gave Suren her blessing ring and a ring for Pestoya, then revealed Isaac's Alchemical Heart and sealed it in his body so he could draw Dark Spiritual Energy.
• Seraya warned Suren that the Fallen Angel would sense the heart, urged him to find Isaac's notebooks, and vanished after asking him to care for Pestoya.
• Suren returned to the ruined Pentagram Central Prison, where he found Kai, Rena, and Anthony alive; the Oliver and Clark forces had been destroyed and their spoils had gone to Suren.
• Suren declined to explain his identity to Rena, warned the survivors to leave the ruins before a major change, and stayed behind while they withdrew.

Suren waited in the ruins with Mr. Mirror, learned that Theresa had recovered to roughly Fourth Tier strength, and joined the Mirror Organization. As he meditated and studied Gerard’s research, Suren began mastering his new mental technique and the knowledge behind Hormone Rampage.

• Suren met Mr. Mirror in a ruined tower and learned Theresa had likely recovered to Fourth Tier, though her grasp of the laws made her far more dangerous than an ordinary Fourth Tier.
• Suren warned Mr. Mirror that Duke Raphael suspected Theresa was an Evil Spirit Invasion and that a secret exorcist team had arrived; Mr. Mirror sent a warning through her communicator and gave Suren one of the rings.
• Mr. Mirror offered Suren a Gold-Patterned Cloak and explained that the loosely organized Mirror group had few obligations; Suren accepted and returned Vulcan's Furnace Lamp without explaining that Isaac's Alchemy Heart had been refined.
• Suren meditated and found that Seraya's Starry Sky Contemplation Technique let him condense and use his Mental Power while turning his negative emotions into nourishment rather than suppressing them.
• Suren reviewed Gerard's notes on hormones and Hormone Rampage, reading rapidly as his improved mental clarity and learning abilities let him absorb the research.

Shadow Demon Tim Ashley infiltrated Old Lindun and identified it as a rich target for the King of the North Sea, while Suren learned how Gerard’s mask suppressed his mutation and prepared to meet Pestoya. Suren put Seraya’s ring on Pestoya and told her that Seraya loved her, triggering the ring and provoking the Fallen Angel hidden in Pestoya as a terrifying will descended on the ruins.

• Shadow Demon Tim Ashley hid in a visitor’s shadow, escaped into Old Lindun, and decided to gather intelligence so the King of the North Sea could send a fleet to plunder it.
• Suren finished reading Gerard’s research notes and learned how the Diviner’s Three-Colored Mask suppressed mental mutation while granting the possibility of Multi-Mind Multitasking.
• Mr. Mirror teleported Suren outside the tower to meet the approaching Pestoya, and Suren recognized that the Fallen Angel’s divided soul was hidden within her.
• Suren put Seraya’s ring on Pestoya’s finger and told her that Seraya loved her.
• The ring emitted scorching light, the Fallen Angel screamed from within Pestoya, and a terrifying will descended over the ruins as disturbance broke out among Teresa’s group.

Suren watched the Duke's Mansion's exorcists battle the Fallen Angel possessing Princess Theresa, until she used a divine technique that killed them all and revealed her power. After Theresa recognized Suren's mirror image, Mr. Mirror realized the Fallen Angel was spending her remaining Power of Faith to escape to the Abyss and vanished from the tower.

• Suren followed Pestoya to the battlefield, where the Duke's Mansion's exorcists used a Sealed Item cross to force the Fallen Angel's soul out of Theresa.
• The Fallen Angel reversed the holy power binding her, ripped out and crushed Theresa's heart, then formed a lightning blade from her blood and fought the exorcists.
• Theresa used a lifespan-burning secret technique to battle the guards, while Suren noticed that their deaths and the absorbed blood were forming a forbidden technique.
• The Fallen Angel summoned a giant eye that compelled everyone who saw it to worship, then caused the Duke's Mansion's guards to kill themselves and absorbed their blood and energy.
• The Fallen Angel looked toward Suren and destroyed his mirror image, recognizing its origin, while Mr. Mirror identified her use of Power of Faith and vanished from the tower.

Suren harvested the fallen Duke's guards and witnessed Mr. Mirror confront Theresa with power that suggested a hidden history and strength. The two began a devastating battle above the ruins, while Suren retreated to watch from a safer distance.

• Suren returned to the battlefield after Mr. Mirror drove Theresa away, then harvested the memory fragments, equipment, Storage Rings, and Sun God Stones from the fallen guards.
• Suren found that Martic Doyle's soul fragments yielded extensive exorcist and alchemical knowledge, while most of the other guards' souls had nearly dissipated.
• Suren saw Dark Spiritual Energy gather into an Elemental Domain and spotted Mr. Mirror, wearing batlike wings, confronting Theresa in the sky.
• Suren realized Mr. Mirror could imitate Theresa's attacks and fight her to a standstill despite displaying only around Fifth Tier battle strength.
• After stray lightning struck near him, Suren carried the spoils several kilometers away and watched the battle from a safer place.

Suren witnessed the thousand-year plan succeed as Pestoya suppressed the Fallen Angel, then escaped the catastrophic Mist Tide that devastated the Dawn Ruins and Wasteland Hunter Camp. At a refugee camp, Sabina revealed that Suren’s growing strength had awakened her own Tier 3 law insights, and he told her that Servis Gerard and Princess Theresa were dead.

• Suren watched Mr. Mirror and six cloaked figures trap the Fallen Angel, while Seraya’s protection let Pestoya seize control of its soul.
• Theresa’s body exploded, triggering a massive Mist Tide that unleashed Abyssal creatures across the ruins.
• Suren fled through the tunnels, escaped Abbas's Flesh Mountain, and reached a camp of refugees after the Wasteland Hunter Camp was overwhelmed.
• Sabina secretly visited Suren’s tent and explained that her Succubus Talent let her share his insights, granting her understanding of Tier 3 laws.
• Suren told Sabina that Servis Gerard had died and Princess Theresa’s entire team had been wiped out, shocking her.

Suren told Sabina that he had killed Servis Gerard and revealed his plan to leave the underground world, while Sabina pledged to follow him and build an intelligence network. After several days of study and travel, Suren’s group reached Old Lindun, where Young Master Evan prepared to have Suren killed.

• Suren warned Sabina that the Black Tower might make a major move and asked about her plans; she offered to serve him and establish an intelligence network wherever they went.
• Pestoya visited Suren, thanked him for the ring, called him her junior brother, returned the Butterfly Brooch, and said she would sleep for a long time.
• Suren traveled with the fleeing group, studied alchemy and runes, and watched Sabina break through her Third Tier bottleneck.
• The fleeing group reached Old Lindun after the Mist Tide destroyed Dawn Ruins and drove its survivors from the Underground Chamber.
• Young Master Evan learned that Fick was Suren and ordered Commander Milo to kill him when he appeared.

Suren returned to Old Lindun and discovered that people tied to the original owner had come to capture him, forcing him to flee into the Underground Chamber. He fought a Fifth Tier assassin until he was badly wounded and called for Mr. Mirror to save him.

• Suren reached Old Lindun with the returning hunters and sensed that someone was targeting him.
• Master Cade identified Suren, and Young Master Evan ordered Commander Milo to pursue him.
• Suren fled into the Underground Chamber, used his Communication Ring to call for help, and prepared to face the pursuing assassin.
• Suren used his spells, puppets, and spatial techniques against Miro, but the Fifth Tier assassin repeatedly evaded his attacks and wounded him.
• Miro recognized Suren's Adamantine and Third Tier law, grew more alarmed, and pressed his assault as Suren's injuries mounted.
• Suren shouted, "Mr. Mirror, save me!"

Suren and Mr. Mirror killed the Fifth-Tier assassin Milo Giles, and Suren absorbed his memories and abilities. Mr. Mirror revealed that Suren could call her Senior Sister, offered him cultivation guidance, and warned him to stay careful as he left the battlefield.

• Milo fled when Mr. Mirror's spell suppressed him, but she caught and killed him while Suren healed his wounds with Life Alchemy.
• Suren harvested Milo's Soul Fragments, gaining assassin knowledge, Wind Element Cutting, and memories about the Regadi Family and the surface world's empires.
• Suren learned that the Regadi collateral branches had targeted the original owner's family and might still try to prevent Kelson Regadi's return.
• Mr. Mirror praised Suren's fight and advised him that understanding death, intent, and spirit required personal experience.
• Mr. Mirror told Suren to call her Senior Sister in private and warned him to be more careful before disappearing.
• Suren collected the corpses and left, reflecting on Mr. Mirror's guidance and his own growing complacency.

Suren returned to Old Lindun and spent several days developing a rune-enhanced Mechanical Puppet and cutting threads, then met Qiantiao after she advanced to Fourth Tier. Their night out ended at Ah Kun's Bathhouse, where Suren unexpectedly encountered Madam Philo.

• Suren learned that Princess Theresa's death had triggered a purge in the Umbrella Organization, while the Reis Main Branch sold its assets to prepare to leave the Tower.
• Suren tested his Iron Man Mark IV Mechanical Puppet, confirming that a Super Overload Rune let it move nimbly despite its heavy steam hammer.
• Suren used Wind Element and Resilience Runes to make hair threads sharp enough to slice through a wooden table leg.
• Suren joined Qiantiao at the Lisboa Casino, gambled with her for hours, and heard that her Rakshasi talent had left her destined to be alone.
• Qiantiao took Suren to Ah Kun's Bathhouse, where he unexpectedly found Madam Philo in the Three Springs Pool.

Suren discovered that Madam Philo was his Senior Sister, Mr. Mirror, and learned about her past and plans while relaxing with her and Qiantiao. A pirate fleet led by Oleg broke out of the Black Tower and attacked Old Lindun, forcing Mr. Mirror and Qiantiao to prepare to act.

• Suren recognized Madam Philo as Mr. Mirror, who explained her vampire bloodline, long hibernation, and the death of her former fiancé.
• Mr. Mirror said she planned to establish a neutral alchemy faction after escaping, while Suren planned to travel and Qiantiao proposed becoming pirates.
• An attack erupted in the Inner City, and Sabina reported that pirates carrying a mace-and-skull flag had broken out of the Black Tower and overwhelmed its guards.
• Suren identified the attackers as Oleg's fleet, and Mr. Mirror left to assess the situation while instructing Qiantiao to gather the Mirror Organization.
• Qiantiao and Suren dressed for battle and left to join the response.

Pirates from the Fourth Fleet ravaged Old Lindun’s Inner City while the Mirror Organization assessed whether to charge the Black Tower amid the chaos. Suren warned that waiting would leave them without a seaworthy vessel, and the group voted to launch their assault within two hours.

• The pirates broke through the Black Tower’s defenses, looted wealthy districts, and seized nobles for ransom while Lieutenant General Sunflame Gladys Olmedo began melting the Mechanical Research Institute’s gate.
• Suren and Qiantiao joined the Mirror Organization’s members in their underground chamber, where Sabina reported the pirates’ attacks and Mr. Mirror explained that the Fourth Fleet had two Sixth Order Professionals.
• Kai proposed waiting for the pirates to leave, but Suren argued that they would destroy or take every usable ship and explained the dangers of crossing the stormy sea.
• Mr. Black warned that delaying would strengthen the Duke’s defenses and risk drawing in the Lu Ying Empire, and the members agreed that charging the tower now was their best chance.
• Mr. Mirror ordered the organization to prepare and meet in the secret passage in two hours to charge the tower.

Suren and Mr. Mirror led nearly five hundred people through a secret route and seized the Black Tower, then broke out into the surface fortress. As the underground citizens rushed to capture ships in the harbor, Suren identified the fastest pirate vessel, the Fairwind, as their target.

• Mr. Mirror led Suren and the gathered forces through a secret passage into the Inner City and toward the Black Tower.
• Mr. Mirror's team ambushed and killed the pirates guarding the tower before they could send a warning, while Suren harvested their Soul Fragments.
• The group climbed the Black Tower, and Mr. Mirror explained that its Asgard Stone came from another plane and had been brought there by Sir Isaac to reinforce the spatial passage.
• The forces emerged from the tower and fought through the fortress guards while pirates and the Mirror Organization battled outside.
• The underground citizens saw the moon, stars, and sea for the first time, then charged toward the harbor to seize ships.
• Suren used the memories he had extracted to direct everyone to capture the black-sailed Fairwind, the fastest ship in the pirate fleet.

Suren and the Old Lindun force seized the Fairwind and tried to escape the pirate harbor, but Frost Giant Gaar Popov froze the entire bay and trapped their ship in ice. The chapter ends with the escape blocked and the force facing a dangerous new predicament.

• Suren and the Old Lindun fighters overwhelmed the pirates guarding the harbor and boarded the Fairwind as Mr. Mirror warned that the underground restrictions were about to fail.
• Suren prepared the ship to sail, and Mr. Black used Gale Technique to drive it out of the harbor while Gaar Popov emerged and attacked Mr. Mirror.
• Suren identified Gaar's Frost Wolf Tooth Club and Frost Dragon Scale Armor as powerful Dark Gold Cursed Objects and warned Mr. Mirror about them.
• Rotten Flower used a Sealed Item to turn into a tree person, repair the Fairwind, and release spores that killed or incapacitated pirates and halted their cannon fire.
• As the Fairwind neared open water, Gaar struck the sea with his club and unleashed a wave of cold that froze the harbor, the ships, and the Fairwind in place.

Fairwind escaped the harbor after Mr. Mirror reflected Gladys’s devastating attack, but a divine-artifact chain trapped Mr. Mirror in the battle. Knowing she could not escape unless she killed its wielder, Suren turned back to help her.

• Red Demon Kai and the Mechanical Warriors broke Fairwind free from the ice as Mr. Black drove it toward the harbor exit.
• Gladys attacked Fairwind with a barrage of magma, but Mr. Mirror reflected the attack into the castle and forced Gladys to defend the harbor.
• A Soul Chain marked Mr. Mirror, preventing her from escaping, while she fought Gar and Gladys; she ordered Emmerich and the others to sail away.
• After Fairwind reached the open sea, Suren realized Mr. Mirror was trapped and decided to return, leaping into the night to help her.